Banastre Tarleton’s lack of hesitance at the Battle of Cowpensis a historical instanceof being baited with your own desires and expectationsan internalized development

for example:

{Thoughts held too private to ever be voiced aloud, written, or otherwise recorded. For this, you will never have access. Not you. Not anyone.} {The thoughts I do not allow myself may or may not be the thoughts you allow no one else}

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it has the potential to bea wondrous thing

The Naica Mine of Chihuahua, the Cueva de los Cristalesis a physical manifestationof internalized developmenta fortress of solitude not unlike mine own

for example:

when we run across the lawn we place one foot in front of the other, unstoppable and when we run unstoppable we yell Racing! Racing! Racing! but we say it like Raay-sing! Raay-sing! Raay-sing! and while we do not run with great speed our feet, unstoppable as they are barely touch the ground and my smile widens- unstoppable and my brow tightens- unstoppable and my eyes focus to seek the eyes of every surrounding and distant toddler/parent combo to burn the language into their pupils:

you-are-now-on-notice

WE ARE FUCK-ING UN-STOPP-A-BLE

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there is nothing to indicatethat it is not both

Robert Frost’s grave in Bennington, Vermontwith its inscription of:“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”

the Tomb of the Unknownsor Arlington National Cemetary in generala staggering, solemn placefrom its origin

you can feel the vibration in the steel standing solitary in the subway drunk after happy hour missing your wife and child and at once your freedom without them and sick with the thought that you thought of it in the first place

{I have arrived at art as any object or action upon which the active testing of cognition can be negotiated.} {It is a continual process of learning, then being reminded, you are always alone.}